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Regular restarts after installing Ventura

Hi,

I have an M2 MacBook Air. Ever since I upgraded to OSX Ventura 13.5, the computer insists on re-starting about once an hour. The only way to stop this behaviour is to have an application open that tends to prevent restarts, e.g. Terminal. This is rather silly, and I see no obvious reason for it. The system and the apps all seem up-to-date. Does anyone know other possible reasons for this, and likely fixes?

Many thanks.

MacBook Air, macOS 13.5

Posted on Sep 26, 2023 1:49 PM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2023 2:01 PM

When it restarts, the normal cause is a kernel panic cause by third-party kernel extensions. While you have some third-party kernel extensions installed, the EtreCheck report does not indicate you have had kernel panics.

There is an option to Logout after a period of inactivity, but not to Restart.

Any chance someone is messing with you and enabled a restart schedule? Run this command in Terminal:

pmset -g sched   

You might see a couple that get set by Apple for some purpose, but you are looking for ones that restart on some time period.

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